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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Sept. 13, 2001
Contact: John Johnson or Jerry Cvengros-- 517-332-5046

Weekly Football Playoff Listings Debut Tuesday, Sept. 18

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Sept. 13 - Beginning the evening of September 18, and on every Tuesday prior to the final game of the regular season, the Michigan High School Athletic Association will release a list of those teams in contention for the MHSAA Football Playoffs, listed in enrollment order, and their playoff point averages. This list will only be available on the MHSAA Web Site.


Here is a small sample of how the weekly listings will read:

	
        Enrolmnt  School                            Record      Ave.
1.	2428	Shelby Township-Utica Eisenhower   (3-0) 	88.000
2.	2198	Westland-John Glenn                (3-0) 	88.000
3.	2105	Troy                               (3-0) 	88.000
4.	2087	Clarkston                          (3-0) 	93.333
5.	2062	Redford-Detroit Catholic Central   (3-0) 	85.333
6.	2061	Brighton                           (3-0) 	90.667
7.	2044	Livonia-Adlai E. Stevenson         (3-0) 	82.667
8.	1979	Walled Lake Western                (3-0) 	82.667
9.	1971	Jackson                            (3-0) 	90.667
10.	1969	Detroit-Martin Luther King         (3-0) 	88.000

For the first two weeks of the listing, all teams with three or more victories will be included. Following the sixth, seventh and eighth weeks of the season, only teams with four or more victories will be listed. The first release next week will probably only include about 230 teams with at least three victories. It is expected that approximately 350 schools will be listed after Week 8. As the list grows, it will become clearer where teams may fall in the enrollment spectrum when broken into divisions on Selection Sunday, October 21.

As in past years, schools and media should review the list carefully, and report possible errors to the MHSAA office.

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